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AN APPEAL AND WARNING 

TO EVERY 
IMMIGRANT IN AMERICA 

BY 

D. MOLDOVAN LL. D 

CHIEF EDITOR 

"ROM ANtJU". DAILY 

CLEVELJ^ND. OHIO. 



Where will be your Home 




AN APPEAL 

AND 

WARNING 

TO EVERY 

IMMIGRANT 

IN AMERICA 



BY 

D. MOLDOVAN LL. D. 

\^ CHIEF EDITOR 

"ROMAN UL "-DAILY 



'•ROMANUL-'-DAILY 

634-638 HURON RD. 

CLEVELAND. OHIO- 

1S17. 






COPYRIGHT 1917, 
THE "ROMANUL" CO. 



NOV -9 !9I7 



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FOREWORD. 

This is not intended to be a scientific work, 
It is an appeal and a warning. 

The aim of this booklet is to call to the atten- 
tion of the immigrant workingmen of America the 
most sacred duty which they have toward this 
glorious land in which they live. 

Fellow immigrants your duty is clear: to he- 
come entirely and forever citizens of the United 
States. 

You should decide now: 

You should be citizens whose souls are imbued 
vjith the spirit of great men who foujided and de- 
fended this country; citizens who are conscious of 
the sacredness of the rights which are guaranteed 
io you; citizens who are proud of being members of 
this great nation, — the name of luhich has been and 
always will be, esteemed throughout the world. 

But you ought to become citizens with 
strengthened hearts and be ready to sacrifice your 
blood and mortal body in defending the rights and 
everlasting honor of the United States of America. 

The writer of this work is himself an immi- 
grant, — rather a re-immigrant, an3 out of his own 
experience, — freshened by renewed impressions,— 
the author knows that the greatest country in this 
world is the United States of America; that the 
most glorious flag which symbolizes a nation com- 
posed of free "citizens" with equal rights, — is the 
flag adorned by stars and stripes: — the flag of the 
United States of America. 

* * * 

I did not make a material fortune, as it was 
not my aim, but I gathered riches of love, out of 
which I intend to give to you who have made your 
efforts for material fortunes only. 

I intend to inspire you with love for the 
uplifting of this glorious republic. 



I desire to call the attention of every immi- 
^ant to the fact that it is not only your sacred 
duty to settle in the United States forever, but I 
intend to prove to you with figures and arguments 
that, besides it being your most sacred duty, — it is 
also the best thing you can do, for your oivn hap- 
piness and of the ones you love most dearly. 

I desire to show and prove to you that your 
individual happiness is not possible where a tyrant 
and his satellites sit "By Divine Right" on the 
neck of people kept purposely in ignorance, and 
who retain their places against the will of their 
^'subjects", whom they consider as tools, to be 
used only for the subduing and despoiling of 
weaker nations. 

I intend to show and prove that individual 
happines is possible only, where a nation compos- 
ed of a hundred million "citizens" recognizes no 
authority unless sanctioned by the will of the peo- 
ple of such government. 

Now, — perhaps in the eleventh hour, — I intend 
to show and prove all these things to you in order 
to call your attention to the disastrous error you 
will make, should you return to the old country 
which you left, because of the hardships and the 
want that was forced upon you. 

That is my aim. 

I trust that I did not write this work in vain 
and believe that I am doing a humble service to 
this great country of which I am a most devoted 
citizen. 

May this be of assistance to you. If so I have 
not lived without reward. 



Cleveland, Ohio. September 19, 1917. 

DION. MOLDOVAN, LL. D. 



PREAMBLE. 

Presuming that the immigrant became entirely 
accustomed to the ways of living in this glorious 
land and admitting that his assimilation to the 
native American has succeeded to the fullest ex- 
tent, — his heart, nevertheless, resounds, touched by 
memories of the old country. 

This is natural and can easily be understood, 
especially by those who know the psychological 
conditions of the immigrant workingman. 

He left behind him the members of his family, 
for the sake of whose happiness he departed from 
his native land. 

He did not have the means for making a liv- 
ing in this native land, and so he came to Amer- 
ica to get his start, to earn money to pay his 
many debts in order to become the owner of soil 
which would provide for him in his old age. 

But the living terror of the past few years 
crossed his path on life's highway. The most terri- 
ble slaughter and devastation that mankind has 
ever witnessed, changed all his future hopes. 

The fury of a greedy race, eager to grasp the 
property of, and to subjugate other nations, burst 
over the v/hole world, and especially over the 
countries in Europe, where it left the most horri- 
fying traces, which will not be abolished in even 

hundreds of years. 

« • * 

Cities in which peaceful citizens lived, became 

only the valleys of tears and woes; in hamlets 

where the strong and industrious youths held the 

plough, you find only mutilated beings, old fathers 

— 3 — 



and mothers, orphans and widows, — left without 
a supporter, in the ruins of their former homes, 
hungry and Vv-eary from misery. 

The number of these run into tens and hund- 
reds of thousands, and even milKons. 

Cities and hamlets were left in ashes, soil was 
left unfilled, yards were deprived of wagons and 
ploughs and barns depleted of cattle; homes were 
ruined, and churches left without bells. Everything 
that had been the "all" of the poor man, became 
the spoil of this tremendous devastation. 

The aristocrats, counts and barons did not lose, 
but multiplied their fortunes, leaving hundreds and 
hundreds of thousands of men poor and hungry, 
who will be ready to work countless thousands of 
acres of land for the lov/est possible compensation. 
These poor men will be compiled to work if only 
for a piece of bread which they may be able to 
obtain; they will not obtain it because of pity, but 
only to keep the soul and body together so that they 

may furnish brute force in man-like form. 

* * * 

As I mentioned in the beginning, dear reader, 
we readily understand, that your feelings may 
make you inclined, as soon as the steamboats 
start, to return to the family which you left be- 
hind and for whom you are longing with all your 
heart. 

But you must pit sense against emotion. 

It is natural that your heart should crave a 
"home". 

But it is our duty to make you think before 
you make your decision as to where you will 
establish this home. 

We must call your attention to 3ome very im- 
portant circumstances that will have a heavy bear- 
ing on the matter when you make up your mind 
as to the question: Where shall I make my 
"home'"! 

— 4 — 



THE "CROSSROAD'' TO BE FACED 

In the foregoing we mentioned shortly the 
big historical events that changed the ways of 
the entire world. 

Think it over tvell before you start for the old 
country, — make up your mind as to whether it 
would be advisable to make your home in the coun- 
try which you left, or whether it would be better 
to bring your family over to this country, that har- 
bored you in the past and will harbor you in the 
future, if you make your home here. 

Think it over whether: 

1. Your ''home" is over the seas, where only 
ruins remain, left by the most devilish tools in- 
vented by human brains, — poverty and hunger, — 
the economic and spiritual slavery, — the near fu- 
ture full of want and useless struggles, and the 
air full of dissatisfaction and revolutionary spirit? 
— there, where millions of prospective beggars 
will be compelled by guns and sabers to bow their 
heads into the yoke of the idle rich? — there where 
an emperor or king, "By Divine Right", so called, 
is the only ruler of millions of human beings? 

Or: 

2. Whether your "home" is here in the 
U. S. of America, the most blessed country 
in the world; — here, where men have re- 
mained men in heart and soul; — here, where 
cities and enterprises grow in plain sight; 
— here in this land, which will give to millions of 
honest workingmen an opportunity to earn honest 
and satisfactory wages for many generations to 
come; here, where millions of acres of land are 
waiting for the plough and which will amply 
repay the work of industrious hands; — here, 
ivhere you will not be forced to struggle with hun- 
ger, and where there will always be peace and 
plenty, satisfaction and good will among men; — 
here, where happy citizens of a mighty land toil 
together to develop the human race toward the 
height to which it was destined by the Almighty 
God, the creator of the world; here in this land, 
where the elect of the entire people is the servant 
of the nation, and whose duty it is to keep in mind 

— 5 ~ 



and with sacredness the interests and will of the 

millions who placed their confidence in him. 

* « * 

From the facts stated above and from those 
written below, 7nake up your mind dear reader. 

Still your emotions. 

Make your decision by calm and concentrated 
reasoning. 

Do not think of that, which you perhaps 
would desire noiu, — but think of what ivill he good 
for yourself and your family, that, which wiD 
give you enduring peace of mind. 

Bear in mind that your and your family's fu- 
ture happiness is at stake; the happiness of your 
family which, by the suffering of yesterday, re- 
deemed its right to the entire happiness of to- 
morrow. 

Decide whether: — 

/. You want yourself and your family to be 
the skwe and work horse of a selected class'} 

OR: 

//. You ivant to be the free and worthy citi- 
zen of a God-blessed country, that gives you free- 
dom and happiness and your family a future of 

brightest hopes? 

* * * 

The aim of this pamphlet is to aid you in mak- 
ing up your mind. 

We intend to teach you to make your judge- 
ment right, as we want to keep a man worthy of a 
better fate from taking a wrong step, — a step that 
may cause his unhappiness for the remainder of 
his life. 

Read the contents carefully and with confi- 
dence, and after you have fully realized the truth 
contained therein, make your decision with a 
mind free from thoughts of emotion as you must 
consider the future happiness of yourself and your 
family, when you decide the question : — 

WHERE SHALL I MAKE MY "HOME'' 
IN THE FUTURE1 



WHY DID YOU COME TO 
AMERICA? 

If you judge impartially, you must, before all, 
know and understand one fundamental thing, that: 
one and 07ie makes two and that taking two from 
two leaves nothing. 

This is an axiom. 

If you, dear reader, conceive this great truth, 
you will also understand that as much as some- 
times one would like to, no human power is capable 
of changing it 

We do not intend to make you hate the land 
where you first saw the light of day. 

God forbid! 

We intend to show you the truth, and although 
you may not acknowledge it as such, you will be 
forced to do so by the power of the truth itself. 

There is no use in fooling yourself! 

The truth is this: 

The land where your forefathers lived for 
good and bad, ivas not able to give you and your 
family the piece of bread to tvhich you ivere 
entitled by your endless drudging and plugging. 

You luere the slave of the inherited soil; you 
rose from your bed before sunrise, and you worked 
and sweat till late in the night. 

For whom? 

For yourself! 

No! 

For the "state" and for the privileged class, 
who oivns the "state". 

You worked to earn money for taxes, on the 
income of which lived thousands and thousands of 
idle dukes, counts, barons and other titled beings, 
who all in all, did nothing but hold the whip 
ready to force you to work like a brute, and 
keep the fax-collector ready to take the bread from 
the mouths of your children and the pillows from 
under your tired head. 

Their "highnesses", the counts and barons, 
who have tens of thousands of acres of land, paid 
in taxes only about three or four crowns per acre, 
while you with your five to ten acres had to pay 
twenty-eight to forty-three crowns per acre. 

_ 7 _ 



You were a born slave, who toiled for the idle. 

This is the pure, but bitter truth. 

This you must understand, and if you are a 
man worthy of confessing the truth, you must 
confess this. 

There is no use in fooling yourself! 

// it had not been thus, you would not be now 
in America. 

You must admit that, industrious as you were 
in the old country, your work did not seem to 
show any gain. 

Your gain was eaten up by the "state ideas" 
of the "privileged class", which needed millions of 
soldiers, military police and sheriffs to force you 
into the yoke of slavery, with the help of the money 
which they took from you and which left your 
purse empty. 

Schools were not made for your sake, as it 
was always the red tape in the politics of these 
governments, that "the peasant is good only so 
long as he is poor, ignorant, timid and sub- 
missive". 

This is the truth! 

It has also forced you into the hands of the 
loan sharks and of the banks which have been es- 
tablished for this purpose. 

"They have done good work." 

When you were about to "buy a new piece of 
land" or to repair your house, you had "only" to 
sign a note and the money for this purpose was 
given to you. 

After that, — ^bad crops, — big interests, — still 
bigger taxes, — court proceedings, — lawyers, — sleep- 
less nights, — and. . . . the only way you had left 
was to ask many of your good friends to indr>rse 
another note so that you could obtain another loan 
sufficient to cover your traveling expenses to 
America. 

America, — the land without counts, barons 
and many other idle beings; — the land created by 
God, where the industrious man can make his 
living by thrifty and honest labor without being 
deprived and despoiled of everything he has been 
able to make. 

This is your story and the story of many 
— 8 — 



hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who were 
seeking liberty and freedom. 

In the old country the one half of your earn- 
ings were taken by the state, county and town- 
ship as taxes, and the other half you spent for the 
maintenance of your family and the paying of 
interest. 

This is why you wer^ not able to save any- 
thing. 

This is the truth! 

You came to the land where there are 
no dreams and vain worship, but where there is 
appreciation of honest work and sound justice j 
as God decreed it to be. 

You came to the country where there is plenty 
of work, and plenty of opportunities, to assure you 
the comfort in your declining years that you de- 
serve. 

This is true! 

In the U. S. you are not heavily taxed; you 
have a chance to deposit about one-half of your 
earnings "fn a bank which pays you interest ; or you 
may invest it in safe and sound enterprises. You 
can easily do this, as the cost of living in normal 
times does not require more than one half of what 
you earn. In this way, after some time, you have a 
few thousand dollars which as far as money goes, 
gives you happiness and the satisfaction that you 
and your family are assured against "rainy 
days". 

This is the truth, dear reader! 

Shortly and precisely: — in the old country , 
out of two pennies you earned, one was taken by 
the state, the other by the cost of living, and 
you were compelled to seek happiness elsewhere 
or starve; whereas i7i America, you lay the one 
penny beside the other and after a few years 
you realize that you have a few thousand. 
— 9 — 



Do you realize this truth, dear reader^ 

* * « 

This was true before the war let loose its fury 
over Europe. 

But what will the conditions be after peace 
has been concluded? 

What will you do, dear reader? 

Where will be your '"home"1 

In the old country which has been submerged 
in debt? 

Or: — 

In this country, which is the banker of the 
entire world and which produces all needed indus- 
trial products? 

Will your "home" he there, -vvhere life will 
be many times harder than it was before the 
war? 

Or: — 

Will it here, where life will be many times 
more worthwhile than it was before the war? 

Reason with a clear mind: Do you want 
yourself and your family to he the work horses 
of the selected class? 

Or: — 

Do you want to be a free and worthy citizen 
of a blessed country, which gives you freedom and 
happiness and your family a future of the bright- 
est hopes? 

It is up to you to make your choice. 

You must make your choice: 

WHERE WILL YOUR ''HOME" BE IN THE 
FUTURES 



THE EFFECT OF THE WAR ON 
THE OLD AND THE NEW 
COUNTRY. 

In the foregoing we have shown you the 
reasons that compelled you to leave your native 
country. 

Keep this in mind: the reason was that 
in times of peace, before the way', you were not 
able to make a respectable living in the old 
country. 

This terrible war, the like of which the world 
has never seen, has changed the whole economical 
situation. 

In the old country, — generally in the whole 
of Europe, — the change has been from bad to 
worse. 

It will be hundreds of times harder to live 
in Europe after the war is over, especially in the 
countries without industries, which had to and 
will have to live on agriculture. 

With the exception of England, France, Bel- 
gium and Germany, such will be the case in all 
the countries of Europe. 

This is the reason: — 

The lands with big industries as mentioned 
above, will be able, after conclusion of peace, to 
begin again in the production of necessary arti- 
cles. 

They will have their factories, which they 
had before the war and their skilled workingmen, 
who will return from the trenches, ready to enter 
into the factory service. Besides, there are thou- 
sands and thousands af woman and grown 
children, who became accustomed to factory work 
during the war. 

These countries have and will have very much 
capital of their own and borrowed from their big 
ally, the United States, — a capital which will be 
invested by American business men for the devel- 
opment of interrupted industries. 

This will be especially true in England, Bel- 
gium and France. 

— 11 — 



What will be the condition in the countries 
without industries before the war? 

They will have to rely on agriculture only, 
as before. 

The strong arms for farm work will be recruit- 
ed out of the ranks of those who have come home 
from the battlefields. 

But what will these strong arms be able to 
accomplish ? 

There will be a lack of working cattle and of 
tools to work the soil. 

Both will be necessary and will have to be 
imported from other countries, where they may 
be found. 

As they will be very scarce, their price will 
be very ^gh, and only those, who have made for- 
tunes during the war will be able to buy them. 

These are only the ones who have tens of 
thousands of acres of land and who had tens and 
hundreds of thousands of crowns worth of econo- 
mic products which they sold to their government 
and for which they received and will receive tre- 
mendous sums of money. 

The poor farmers will remain poor, or the 
greater number of them will lose even what little 
they had before the war and will be left on the 
streets, penniless. 

These poor men will be compelled for the sake 
of procuring the daily nourishment for themselves 
and their families, to sell their war-wearied bod- 
ies to those, for whose sake they have been doing 
the fighting; they ivill be compelled to practically 
carry the yoke as beasts of burden. 

They will also have to keep the widows and 
orphans of those who perished in the war, for the 

state will not be able to support them. 

* * * 

Instead of supposition, we will quote some 
figures running into billions of dollars, which have 
been wasted in carrying on the war. 

Here they are: 

A comparative statistical statement published 
by F. Landen, one of the best known staticians, 
shows that up to the middle of 1917 the war has 
cost the following stupifying sums: 

In each and every day there have been spent 
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330,586,854 marks; in every hour, 13,774.452 
marks; in every minute^ 229,574 marks; and in 
every secoTid, 3826 marks. 

These sums are divided as follows: 



ENGLAND with 46,697,000 inhabitants had, 
before the war, debts amounting to 14,423 mil- 
lion marks, or 309 marks per capita. 

Through carrying on the war the debts were 
increased to 142,000 million marks, or 3,200 marks 
per capita. 

FRANCE, with 39,800,000 inhabitants, had 
debts before the war amounting to 26,230 million 
marks, or 659 marks per capita. 

War expenses amounted to 56,056 million 
marks, the total debt being 82,286 million marks, 
or 2,9Jf2 marks per capita. 

ITALY, with 35,400,000 inhabitants, had debts 
before the war amounting to 14,423 million marks, 
or 309 marks per capita. 

War expenses amounted to 19,000 million 
marks, the total debt being 33,423 million marks, 
or 1110 marks per capita. 

RUSSIA, with 140,700,000 inhabitants, had 
debts before the war amounting to 21,359 million 
marks, or 152 marks per capita. 

War expenses amounted to 54,857 million 
marks or over 600 marks per capita. 

ROU MANIA, with 7,400,000 inhabitants, had 
debts before the war amounting to 2,012 million 
marks, or 271 marks per capita. 



GERMANY, with 68,200,000 inhabitants, had 
debts before the war amounting 4,962 million 
marks or 72 marks per capita. 

War expenses amounted to 68,000 million 
marks, the total debt being 72,962 million marks, 
01* over 1900 marks per capita. 
— 13 — 



AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, with 53,170,000 inhab- 
itants, had debts before the war amounting to 
11,012 million marks, or 207 marks per capita. 

War expenses amounted to 28,525 million 
marks, the total debt being 39,537 million marks, 
or 1,637 marks per capita. 

TURKEY, with 21,600,000 inhabitants, had 
debts before the war amounting to 3834 million 
marks, or 177 marks per capita. 

War expenses amounted to 1,412 million 
marks, the total debt being 5246 million marks, 
or 24-2 marks per capita. 

BULGARIA, with 4,600.000 inhabitants, had 
debts before the war amounting to 458 million 
marks, or 187 marks per capita. 

War expenses amounted to 900 million marks, 
the total debt being 1358 million marks, or 296 

marks per capita. 

« • * 

This is how the debts of each of these states 
have been increased by carrying on the war up to 
July 31, 1917. 

Hoivever, this data do not comprise the dam- 
ages done by the war or through cessation of the 
industrial activities by the destruction of cities and 
villages located in the war zones ; and on the 
other hand,zi has to be taken into consideration 
that the millions of productive young men killed 
and maimed, become a liability to the state instead 
of an asset, and so the proportion of the indebted- 
ness ivill have to be figured on a much larger scale. 

Statistical work of a German professor. 
Doctor von Eheberg, shows that during the year 
of 1917 the war expenses and debts of these sev- 
eral warring states were increased by one-third 
to one-half of the above amounts. 

So we may reasonably show you the follow- 
ing financial outlook for the end of 1917: 

DEBT PER CAPITA. 

Before the war At the end of 1917 

England 309 marks 4160 marks 

France 659 marks 3825 marks 

Italy 309 marks 1430 marks 

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Russia « 152 marks 874 marks 

Roumania 271 marks 1083 marks 

Germany 72 marks 2352 marks 

Austria-Hungary . .207 marks 2128 marks 

Turkey 177 marks 315 marks 

Bulgaria 187 marks 385 marks 

# * * 

From this data, dear reader, make up your 
mind clearly and do not forget that ; 

If, before the war, you ivere not able to make 
a living in the country where you were born in 
the way you expected, in spite of the fact that 
then the taxes and debts were only the tenth part 
of what they will be and the living conditions 
were more favorable, — how do you expect to 
live in the old country after conclusion of the war 
when the debts and damages suffered by the state 
and the taxes will be ten fold greater than they were 
before the war^ and the living conditions will be ten 
times worse as a result of the scarcity of necessities 
of life*! 

Such will be the condition in EUROPE. 

# * * 

How does the present and the future look 
here in America^ 

I invite you to be my witness for the actual 
standing. 

Instead of many words, look at these figures: 

In the year of 1913, the total aggregate debt 
of the United States was $3,475,954,353 or $35.81 
per capita. 

As a result of the war, since all the industries 
of Europe ceased their peaceful work, the pro- 
visioning of the entire world (excluding the cen- 
tral powers) has passed to the United States. 

Here, since the war started, all industries have 
attained a height undreamed of even by the most 
daring speculators. 

This is the result * 

On the 30th of June, 1915 the debts of the 
United States fell to the total amount of $424,- 
154,647, or $^^.31 per capita. 

The statistics of the savings banks show that 
the total amount of the money deposited in the 
United States reached the amount of $901,610,- 
693.88, or $352.72 per capita. 
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Against this the statistics of European banks 
show the following savings per capita. 

England $25.82 

France 28.36 

Belgium 28.53 

Italy 12.42 

Russia 7.84 

Roumania 1.69 

Germany 90.69 

Austria 4.13 

Hungary 15.12 

Turkey — Data not available 
Bulgaria, in Postal Savings 
banks 2.03 

The statistics of exported and imported goods 
for 1916 show that the United States exported 
more than they imported, and so have gained in 
national riches each year as follows: 

1910 $187,164,732 

1911 522,094,094 

1912 551,057,475 

1913 652,875,915 

1914 470,653,491 

1915 1,094,419,600 

1916 2,135,775,355 

The above figures are the best proof of the 
wonders which have been accomplished within a 
few years and the way by which this glorious 
country became the leader of the whole world, ma- 
terially and morally. 

From all this, dear reader, you can convince 
yourself^ without our suggestion, that at present 
and for the future, the material situation of the 
inhabitants of the United States is and will be 
beyond comparison with any other part of the 
world. 

• • • 

Briefly: 

In the old country the debts, taxes and bur- 
dens have increased to ten times what they were 
when you ''escaped in fear of them to America" ; 
while here in America the debts of the state de- 
creased to the seventh part in comparison with 
what they had been when you came. 
— 16 — 



The prospects of earning in the old country 
have dropped to the level of desperation on ac- 
count of the lack of tools, money and seeds ; tvhereas 
the prospacts of earning in the United States have 
already risen to a tremendous height never before 
attained. 

After the war is over, when thousands of 
steamers will have a clear road for the transpor- 
tation of goods to the starving humanity in Europe 
without being held up, the possibilities for earning 
will be many fold more. 

Even the wages which you receive today for 
your work, as 3/ou know by experience, are three, 
— tour, or many times more than they were before 
Oie war broke out. 

After the conclusion of the war, all the facto-' 
ries in America wiO produce goods for hundreds 
of millions of human beings and will be able to 
pay much higher wages to their workingmen,* 
among which, as a matter of cow^se, the skilled and 
the ones who already know the language, ivill be 
preferred before any other. 

Just imagine, dear reader, the time when a 
common laborer will earn from $5 to $6 a day. 

This time is very near, and will come with 

certainty. 

# ♦ * 

Now, dear reader, reason only with a clear 
mind and decide what you will do after' the war 
and where your ^"home" will be. 

The happiness of yourself and your family is 
at stake! 

Do you want yourself and your family to be 
in want and slavery in Europe for the rest of your 
lives, 

Or: — 

Do you want to be a free citizen of America 
and to give your family a life worthwhile'! 

WHERE WILL BE YOUR ''HOME'"! 



SOCIAL-POLITICAL LIFE 
IN AMERICA. 

In the old country you were oppressed by a 
a dominating class, materially and morally. 

Laws were made, but those laws gave consider- 
ation only to the dominating class and race, or its 
adherents. 

If you, a poor peasant, raised your voice in 
protest, claiming your God-given rights, — if you 
stood by your tongue and creed, — ^the gendarmes 
silenced you with the butts of their guns. 

You were considered only as a dangerous re- 
volter. 

The "liberty of the press", the "liberty of 
meetings", the "liberty of forming societies", were 
only the rights of the dominating class and race, 
and their favorites. 

The only right you had was to pay the taxes 
and "to keep quiet" even when the sheriff threw 
you out of the house inherited from your parents. 

Such were the conditions in the old country. 

What are they here? 

You are heartily welcome, as long as you are 
an honest workingman who respects the laws of 
this land. All the ways by which you can assemble 
with those in your class, are open to you, in order 
to aid you in obtaining recognition of your rights. 

The officers are elected by the citizens accord- 
ing to their merits and ability, from the President 
down to the smallest clerk. 

All the ways toward culture and enlighten- 
ment are open to you, so that you may know your 
rights. 

Still more, the state and communities even 
help you toward culture, enlightenment and a bet- 
ter standing, by maintaining free schools and free 
public libraries. 

All the state expects of you is, that you make 
use of all these iiistitutions and privileges, which 
it gives you in order to aid you in becoming a de- 
voted and honest citizen of the United States. 

IT IS UP TO YOU TO BECOME AN HON- 
EST CITIZEN AND TO DO YOUR SHARE, AS 
SMALL AS IT MAY BE, for this great Republic 
— 18 — 



which has been created by the will of the Almighty 
God and by the great and honest purpose of great 
men, who sustained and developed it to be the first 
among all nations. 

This country treats you right; it pays every- 
body according to his ability, and is the protecting 
sTiield of all the nations oppressed by the greediness 
of barbarous rulers. 

This Republic which feeds and shields the 
ones who suffered for the sake of the right, will 
punish in the name of Justice the nations who de- 
serve to be punished. 

* * * 

Do you see the weakness of the old country, 
which is composed and sustained by the like of you, 
for the sake of a privileged class and racel 

Do you see the greatness of this land in which 
you live, which is composed and sustained by the 
like of you, for your sake and for the sake of all its 
citizens'! 

Do you realize the difference'! 

Do you realize the honor and respect which is 
due to the name "American" and the flag embel- 
lished by the stars and stripes^ 

Under which flag do you want to live? 

Decide and make up your mind clearly. 

Do not let yourself be deceived by vain 
longing. 

Your and family's future happiness is at stake! 

Do you want to be the slave of the "old class" 
and racet 

Or,— 

Do you want to be the defender of a constitu- 
tion^ ivhich gives you your rights because they ar# 
due youl 

Judge wisely and decide: — 

WHERE YOUR "HOME" WILL BE AFTER 
THE WAR IS OVER. 



RETURNING TO THE OLD COUN- 
TRY AND COMING BACK 
TO AMERICA. 

In the foregoing we have shown you, dear 
reader : 

1. The conditions as they were in the old 
country before the war; 

2. Trie results which the war will leave in 
the old country and in America; 

3. The future outlook in the old country and 
in America. 

Always we have asked you the question • 

"Where will your "home" be in the future?" 

* * * 

Perhaps, in spite of all our proofs and argu- 
ments, you may decide to go back to the old 
country. 

Perhaps you will decide to make this step, 
which in all probability will be the worst you have 
ever made. 

You will do this, thinking that if you do not 
find such conditions as you expected existing in 
the old country, you will be able to return to 
this land which shielded you from the miseries 
of war. 

Here you will make your mistake. 

Before you make your decision, do not forget, 
that the door through which you will endeavor to 
leave the old country, as well as the door through 
which you will desire to re-enter the United States, 
will be closed to you. 

You will be barred by two strong locks. 

// you go back to Europe you will be compelled 
to stay there, ivhere your unfortunate decision and 
your vain longing led you, forever. 

You will have exchanged the dear freedom for 
the life-long slavery of your family and yourself. 

This is the reason : 

In the old country, the wrongs and wants 
which you left behind the first time, did not dimin- 
ish, but they increased ten or a hundred fold dur- 
ing the war. 

The rich and domineering class will have 
need of cheap working power, and as soon as they 
— 20 — 



have you in their clutches, they vMl take all possi- 
ble measures against losing you again. 

They will find the means through taxes, sher- 
iiis and gendarmes, and will thus compeil you to 
sell your energy as cheap as possfole, in order 
that they may live a lite of ease. 

Be sure that the biggest part of the expenses 
and loans for war will noc be paid by their idleness, 
but will have Lo be paid out of the crops from the 
soil tilled by you. You will always be considered 
only as a 'taxpaying subject." 

This 3''ou already know very well from the 
times before the war, otherwise you would not be 
here in America. 

You also know very well, that "the wolf 
changes Its fur, but not its nature". 

When the counts and barons again drag you 
into their yokes, you will seek once more to steal 
over the frontiers, but they will be closely guarded 
by gendarmes. You will try once again to enter 
this real Canaan, w4iere there only is a life worth- 
while. 

You will try, — and God will be good to you, if 
you succeed in escaping. 

If you have money and good luck, you may 
also be able to cross the ocean, but if you are not 
a citizen, you will come to a door heavily barred. 

In the United States, where a good and blessed 
life will begin right after the war, entrance will 
not be ailovved to migrating birds. 

This country tvill let in only such people as 
will remain faitlifiil and who will devote all their 
energy to its development. 

Those who return only with the purpose of 
making a lot of money, to take to other lands, will 
knock in vain on the door of the heaven called 
America. 

They will not even get a hearing. 

You know very well from the papers, of the 
strict measures which have been taken by the gov- 
ernment to handicap the excessive immigration. 
(The Burnett-Dillingham and other immigration 
laws are only the beginning.) 

This is only fair. 

So you see dear reader: 
— 21 — 



// you once go home after the war, you will 
enter slavery; 

Whereas, if you remain in America, and become 
a citizen of this blessed country, you and your fam- 
ily can enjoy a happy life. You will be able to 
bring up your children in a way possible only in 
America, as this is the only country where all 
careers are open to everybody, without class distinc- 
tion, even to the chair of the Presidency. 



Now decide, dear reader, what you will do 
after the war is over. 

Do not allow yourself to be misled by vain 
longing. 

Judge with a clear mind and then decide, but 
do not forget: 

That~the future happiness of yourself and your 
family is at stake. 

The step which you may make, may he irre- 
parable! 

Decide this question wisely: 

WHERE WILL YOUR "HOME" BE AFTER 
THE WAR IS OVER? 



CONCLUSION. 

After giving the foregoing careful considera- 
tion, and having thought it over with a clear mind, 
we believe that you will decide to settle forever in 
the United States. 

You will therefore become, with your whole 
heart and soul, a citizen of this Republic, whose 
inhabitants are free and citizens; where the honest 
And industrious citizen can make a good living for 
himself and create for his family a good existence; 
where the nation, by its well-doing and liberty, is 
the sole lord of its land and of the officials elected 
on their merits. 

You must realize, that: 

To be a citizen of the United States is the 
greatest privilege of its kind, as he is the hearer 
and defender of a clean flag, which stands for the 
liberation of all oppressed nations and which her- 
alds freedom for all mankind, — as God Almigthy 
decreed it to be. 

Make your "home" HERE forever! 
Become used to the ways of living and learn 
the language of this land, in order to do your best 
for its progress and to be able to feel and under- 
stand the beating of the pulse of this country's 
organism. 

Bury all your memories and your past in the 
tears of bitter deception that connected you with 
the land which was not able to support you, al- 
though it is soaked thoroughly with the blood of 
your forefathers and your dear ones, who had to 
sacrifice themselves for the good of others. 
— 23 — 



Do not curse the land of your birth I 

Bless it! 

The sufferings which you endured and which 
expelled you frotn that land, tought you to appre- 
ciate and praise the greatness of this land, which 
is unequalled. 

Cleanse your hearts with the tears which you 
shed over an unworthy past. 

Receive in your thus revived spirits all the 
rays of the sun of liberty, which rises and sets 
over this soil, made sacred by the blood and imbued 
with the spirit of the great heroes who founded 
and defended it for the blessing of mankind. 

The heroes who gave ail for the honor of this, 
their country's flag, were not emperors, nor kings, 
nor counts, nor barons, but were toilers at hard 
and honest work, like you, yourself; they were also 
tired of injustice and of being despoiled by the 
powerful ones. 

They were men of your kind. 

They who created this land were men with 
clean hearts and minds. 

Let us bless their memory! 

How? 

By following their example; the only way of 
which is: 

To become, forever, the sons and defenders of 
the heirdom they left us: The United States of 
America! 

If you are not a citizen, let it be the first and 
most sacred duty which you have to fulfill for the 
sake of your gratefulness for the goods which you 
shared. 

Decide that: 

THE UNITED STATES, SHALL BE YOUR 
HOME AND YOUR COUNTRY FOREVER. 



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